Global Thought and its Ghosts

An essay which utilises short fiction and music to reflect on the teleological determinism characteristic of historical Eurocentric theorising which aspired to a global universality. How can we think theory in the ruins of such meta-narratives? Does theory still retain an emancipatory function? Can global thought also mean an excavation of wreckages, or giving voice to revisiting spectres from the past? Can such ghosts meaningfully contest the “capitalist realism” which threatens the subsumption of futurity and utopian imagining today?

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INTER- The Journal for Global Thought
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2025-09-23
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https://doi.org/10.15664/5rrgcz65
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Political Economy and Marxism
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Global Thought and its Ghosts

Ewan Jenkins
INTER- The Journal for Global Thought
Political Economy and Marxism
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Global Thought and its Ghosts

Ewan Jenkins
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Abstract

An essay which utilises short fiction and music to reflect on the teleological determinism characteristic of historical Eurocentric theorising which aspired to a global universality. How can we think theory in the ruins of such meta-narratives? Does theory still retain an emancipatory function? Can global thought also mean an excavation of wreckages, or giving voice to revisiting spectres from the past? Can such ghosts meaningfully contest the “capitalist realism” which threatens the subsumption of futurity and utopian imagining today?

INTER- The Journal for Global ThoughtVol. 1(1)
University of St Andrews (GB)
Openalex Percentile: Top 65%
Political Economy and Marxism
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